JF

-> but over time it's been harder to avoid the realization that the REAL purpose of this anti-racist outrage is to clobber the native working class, i.e. the people who, due to having paid taxes and built the welfare state, now feel they have a legitimate claim on resources.

-> Their expectations have to be managed! They can't expect to get anything, just because it's "their" country or "their" welfare state. The moment the racist violence stops being useful as an anti-worker weapon, the left loses interest! It's entirely a feature, not a bug!

Yes. Agree totally.

With the total defeat of labour, I think one thing is basically becoming crystal clear about class politics in the 21st century: the decision of Blairites everywhere to promote everyone going to college has created a *new* "new class" of people.

"Lumpenburgeoise" whose very real political energy fueled momentum. These are all the people mashed into this factory line university system we've built up, but emerge only to find there's no "good" job waiting on the other side. Their beef with capitalism is that it's "unfair".

But the reason it is unfair is that these people have to work like proles! They're bitter because they have to be workers, when in reality (they feel) they deserve far better than that!

I would be happy to be a janitor or bus driver and just post and game in my spare time if I could actually live that way. Hell I'd rather do that than grind and kiss ass or monitor timesheets. Undergrad debt in the US contributes to the inability to fall gracefully this way tho

Oh definitely. You've touched on the core of the way forward politically. Let's make being a janitor or bus driver something with dignity and comfort and value, not something hellish and bad and low that's taken to be okay because all the grad students are above such work.